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Dr. Pratibha Panjiar

MBBS, DA, DNB

Professor, Department of Anaesthesia

Reg. Number: DMC 40774

pratibha.panjiar@gmail.com

About

Dr Pratibha Panjiar did her MBBS and DA (anaesthesia) from Gajra Raja Medical College, Gwalior. She has completed her secondary DNB and senior residency from VMMC and Safdarjang Hospital, New Delhi. She also pursued Diploma in Medicolegal System from Symbiosis, Pune. She is currently working as Professor in the department of Anaesthesia, HIMSR, New Delhi. She is AHA certified BLS and ACLS instructor and IRCF certified BCLS and CCLS instructor.

 

She has vast clinical experience of more than 18 years and have administered anaesthesia for various specialities like general surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology, orthopaedics, ENT, ophthalmology as well as super-specialities including neurosurgery, cardiac and thoracic surgery, paediatrics, oncology, urology, plastic surgery, transplant surgery, GI surgery, bariatric surgery, joint replacements, interventional neurology and cardiac cath lab. She also has experience in the management of acute and chronic pain and critical cases in ICU.

She is a postgraduate teacher and guide. She has multiple publications in indexed journals and chapters in books.

She has established CRT centre at HIMSR and running

COLS, BCLS and CCLS training programs. She has successfully organized many CMEs and workshop at HIMSR.

Educational Qualifications

S.No. Degree Year of Completion Institute Name
1 MBBS 2006 Gajra Raja Medical College, Gwalior, MP Jiwaji University
2 DA 2008 Gajra Raja Medical College, Gwalior, MP Jiwaji University
3 DNB 2012 VMMC and Safdarjang Hospital Jiwaji University
4 DMLS 2023 SYMBIOSIS SCHOOL OF DISTANCE LEARNING
5 RBCW 2018 Maulana Azad Medical College (Regional Centre), Delhi conducted at HIMSR

Details of Teaching Experience

S.No. Designation Institution From To Duration
1 Professor HIMSR, New Delhi 13-09-2024 Present
2 Associate Professor HIMSR, New Delhi 16-02-2021 12-09-2024 3 Years, 6 Months, 27 Days
3 Assistant Professor HIMSR, New Delhi 24-02-2016 15-02-21 5 Years
4 Senior Resident VMMC and Safdarjang Hospital 01-06- 2012 011-03- 2014 1 Years 9 Months

Total Publications:-26

Publications (Last Three Years)

  1. Arshad MS, Garg A, Khan MA, Panjiar P, M Hussain. Comparing the Effect of Total Intravenous Anesthesia Versus Inhalational Anesthesia on Patient Quality of Recovery, Cognitive Status & Pain After Undergoing Elective Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy. SN Compr. Clin. Med. 2025; 7: 278
  2. Sinha N, Bhat K, Khanuja S, Gupta M, Wadhwani M, Panjiar P. Comparison of BlockBuster® Laryngeal Mask Airway, King Vision® Video Laryngoscope, and flexible intubation scope for orotracheal intubation in adult patients with simulat-ed immobilised cervical spine: A randomised controlled trial. Indian J Anaesth 2025;69:296-01.
  3. Agarwal J, Cherian MN, Hussain SY, Panjiar P, Santosh Kumar S, et al. Pa-tients’ Perception of Anaesthesia and Participation in Their own Perioperative Safety- An Observational Study. J Surg 10: 11432
  4. Agarwal J, Khanuja S, Gupta M, Panjiar P, Wadhwani M, Jain M. Impressions of acute pain services in a tertiary care center in India – Enhancing perioperative out-comes beyond pain. The Indian Anaesthetists’ Forum 2024;25:111-16.
  5. Panjiar P, Agarwal J, Sinha N, Butt KM. Acute unilateral swelling of parotid gland after lateral decubitus position under general anaesthesia: Anaesthesia Mumps. J of Anaesthes, Clinical Pharmacol 2024;40:710-11
  6. Agarwal J, Khanuja S, Panjiar P, Gupta M, Thukral V, Prasad D. Midpoint Transverse Process to Pleura Block for Postoperative Analgesia in Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: A Pilot Study and Review of Literature. Journal of Indian Col-lege of Anaesthesiologists 2024;3:16-22.
  7. Book Chapter - Guevara LR, Pasternak JJ, Panjiar P, Agarwal J. Diseases affecting the brain. In: Hines RL, Jones SB, Agarwal J, Gupta N, editors. Stoelting’s Anesthesia & Co-Existing Disease. 4th ed. South Asia Edition. Elsevier; 2024.p. 247-79.
  8. Panjiar P, Chawla P, Habib S, Tyagi R. Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy in Pa-tients with Lumbar Peritoneal and Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt. International Jour-nal of Science and Research 2024;13(11):17.
  9. Panjiar P, Khanuja S, Prasad ASD. Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) by antibiotic loaded bone cement (ALBC) implant used in orthopaedic surgery: An unexpected presentation. International journal of scientific research 2024;13:18.
  10. Hussain SY, Khanuja S, Panjiar P, Jain D, K Batt. Effect of N95 Filtering Face-piece Respirator on Venous Blood carbon dioxide levels and hemodynamic changes in health care workers. Indian journal of occupational and environmental Medicine 2023;1:38.
  11. Book Chapter - Panjiar P. Day care Anesthesia. Essentials of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Resuscitation. 2023
  12. Kochhar A, Panjiar P, Goel S, Pandurangi S, Maheswari M, K Batt. Are resi-dents in India trained in ultrasound guided central venous cannulation? A pro-spective survey on the training and practices of anaesthesiology residents in cen-tral venous cannulation. International Journal of Medical and Pharmaceutical Re-search 2023;4:88-95.
  13. Khanuja S, Panjiar P, Sachhan V, Hussain SY, Sinha N, Khan T, KM Butt. In-traocular Pressure Changes following laryngoscopy and tracheal intubation with Macintosh laryngoscope and videolaryngoscope (King vision) in non-ophthalmic surgeries: A Randomized study. International Journal of Medical and Pharmaceu-tical Research 2023;4:489-95.

Memberships and Fellowships

  1. Association of Obstetric Anaesthesia (AOA)
  2. Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine (ISCCM)
  3. Academic Bodies Societies
  4. Airway management foundation (AMF) AMF-429-2021
  5. Indian Society of Anaesthesiologists: M1595
  6. Indian College of Anaesthesia: 932
  7. RSACP P-343-L
  8. Difficult Airway Society: F1745
  9. Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britian and Ireland (AAGBI): 156225
  10. Airway management foundation (AMF) AMF-429-2021

Awards

  1. Appreciation award in recognition of exemplary efforts in teaching and training in the field of Anaesthesiology by ISA Delhi.
  2. Faculty presentation competition at 1st Annual National Conference of YUVA ISA, 2020
  3. Scientific paper “Difficult airway in geriatric patients: Prospective study comparing various airway predictors in predicting difficult laryngoscopy” presented in World Airway Management Meeting, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2019.
  4. Overall top 6 oral paper presentation “A comparison of the thyromental height test with ratio of height to thyromental distance, thyromental distance and modified mallampatti test in predicting difficult laryngoscopy: a prospective study” at Society of Airway Management annual meeting 2018, Chicago, USA
  5. Top 10 poster presentation “Cervical epidural analgesia with general anaesthesia versus general anaesthesia alone for oral hypopharyngeal and laryngeal cancer surgeries; a randomized studies” at the association of anaesthetists of Great Britian and Ireland (AAGBI) annual congress 2018, Dublin, Ireland.
  6. Scientific paper “A comparison of the thyromental height test with ratio of height to thyromental distance, thyromental distance and modified mallampatti test in predicting difficult laryngoscopy: a prospective study” presented at the association of anaesthetists of Great Britian and Ireland (AAGBI) annual congress 2018, Dublin, Ireland
  7. 3rd Position in Quotation Competition held @ S.J.H on 13th Oct 2018. Theme – Palliative Care Because I Matter

Invited Talks and Lectures

  1. Panelist at Hamdardbiocon, HIMSR, 2024 on “Current updates on Sepsis”, HIMSR, 2024.
  2. Faculty (instructor) at Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, UP, for BCLS and CCLS provider course, November 2024.
  3. Faculty (instructor) at Gajra Raja Medical College, Gwalior, MP, for BCLS and CCLS provider course, October 2024.
  4. Faculty (speaker) at CME “Core concepts at critical care medicine”, HIMSR, on “Current status of DNAR in India”, New Delhi, October 2024.
  5. Faculty (instructor) at ESIC Dental College, New Delhi, for BCLS provider course, September 2024.
  6. Faculty at “7th International Airway Congress of AMF”, September 2024, New Delhi.
  7. Faculty (instructor) at GIMS Medical College, Noida for BCLS and CCLS course, September 2024.
  8. Faculty at “Advanced Airway Workshop by AMF” at 32nd Annual National and 3rd International Conference of Research society of Anaesthesiology Clinical Pharmacology, 2024, Jodhpur.
  9. Judge at 32nd Annual National and 3rd International Conference of Research society of Anaesthesiology Clinical Pharmacology, 2024, Jodhpur.
  10. Panelist at YUVACON Delhi 2024 “Medico-legal issues faced by anaesthesiologists: what should we know as residents and consultants and Free Lancers”, April 2024, New Delhi
  11. Faculty at ‘AIIMS Cadaveric Airway workshop’, March 2024, New Delhi
  12. Faculty (BCLS instructor) at LHMC, New Delhi, March 2024
  13. Faculty/ resource person at Delhi Pharmaceutical sciences and research university for workshop on Basic Life support and oxygen therapy, 2023, New Delhi
  14. Faculty at Advanced Airway workshop by AMF at National annual conference of ISACON, Gurgaon, 2023.
  15. Faculty (Simulation workshop) at 62nd Annual conference of ISACON Delhi, 2023.
  16. Faculty at workshop “Basic life support” at HIMSR annual fest Anastomosis, 2023
  17. Faculty (lecture) at 14 th National Airway Conference, Srinagar, September 2023
  18. Faculty at “Post Graduate Interactive Forum 2023” Safdarjang Hospital, Delhi
  19. Faculty (lecture) on “Chest X Ray” at AIIMS Post Graduate Assembly 2023
  20. Faculty (judge) at 61st annual conference of ISACON Delhi, 2022
  21. Panelist at annual conference UPISACON 2022, “The bleeding parturient”
  22. Faculty at workshop “Basic life support” in HIMSR annual fest Anastomosis, 2022
  23. Faculty at workshop “Basic life support” in Annual Congress of the American college of Surgeons, India chapter, August 2022
  24. Faculty at workshop “Management of Airway and Pain – The MAP”, HIMSR, New Delhi, 2022
  25. Faculty (chairperson) at RSACP academic webinar series “Airway- clinical pearls from experts” 2022
  26. Faculty (guest speaker) “Forays of artificial intelligence in Regional Anaesthesia” at 38th Annual Academic congress of College of Anaesthesiologists and Intensivists of Sri Lanka, 2022, Sri Lanka
  27. Faculty (Judge) at 68th Annual Conference of Indian Society of Anaesthesiologists ISACON 2021, Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
  28. Faculty (Judge) at 60th Annual Conference of Indian Society of Anaesthesiologists (Delhi Branch), 2021.
  29. Faculty Trainer for workshop “Airway management workshop”, GIMS, Greater Noida, 2021.
  30. Faculty (lecture) on Artificial Intelligence in Regional Anaesthesia, ICA Webinar, 2021.
  31. Panelists at CME: World Patient Safety Day, HIMSR, 2021.
  32. Speaker at workshop “Emergency 101” on CPR, organized by International Fraternity of Medical Students, 2021
  33. Faculty (chairperson) at 1st International and 30th National Conference of Research Society of Anaesthesiology Clinical Pharmacology (RSACPCON), 2021.
  34. Faculty (chairperson) at RSACP ACADEMIC WEBINAR SERIES 2021, “Airway and Pain Management” ISA, 2021.
  35. Faculty (Judge), CME: World patient Safety day, HIMSR, 2020
  36. Faculty (Judge), CME: World patient Safety day, HIMSR, 2020
  37. Organizing secretary, CME: Anaesthesia Update 2020: Upcoming and Promising areas in Anaesthesia, HIMSR, New Delhi, 2020.
  38. Faculty, Workshops and Hands-On training in BLS, HIMSR, New Delhi 2019
  39. Organizing secretary, CME: Perioperative Patient Safety, HIMSR, New Delhi 2019
  40. Guest speaker, CME: Block, No block, Unblock, Sharda Medical College, Noida, 2019.
  41. Faculty at 11th National and 1st International conference of the Indian College of Anaesthesiologists (ICACON), New Delhi, 2019.
  42. Faculty at ISACON, Agra, 2018.
  43. Organizing secretary, CME: Geriatric Anaesthesia, HIMSR, 2018.
  44. Faculty at Skill development workshop and refresher course of technology, HIMSR, New Delhi, 2017.

Institutional Responsibilities

S.No. Name of the Committee Role
1 Code Blue Committee Member Secretary
2 Post CPR Audit / Analysis Committee Member
3 Hospital Bioethics Committee Member
4 Institutional BCLS/CCLS training